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Baie-D'Urfé is named after François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, a French Sulpician priest known as l'Abbé d'Urfé. [8] He was the community's first pastor, who was sent by the Gentlemen of Saint-Sulpice to serve as a missionary for the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île (which was later renamed in his honour), a small community of settlers, soldiers, traders, and Indians.
Beaconsfield is a suburb on the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Greater Montreal region locally referred to as the West Island.It is a residential community located on the north shore of Lac Saint-Louis, bordered on the west by Baie-D'Urfé, north by Kirkland and east by Pointe-Claire.
In 1663, the Saint-Louis Mission was founded in the west end of Montreal Island at Pointe-Caron (site of the present-day Baie-d'Urfé yacht club), and was led by François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé. At that time, the mission included the entire area from the tip of Montreal Island to Pointe-Claire, Île Perrot, Soulanges, Vaudreuil, and Île ...
Pierrefonds (Quebec French pronunciation: [pjaɛ̯ʁˈfõ]) is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada.It is located along the Rivière des Prairies on the northwestern part of the Island of Montreal (part of what is colloquially called the West Island).
Beaconsfield–Baie-D'Urfé is a former borough in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec. It was composed of the municipalities of Beaconsfield and Baie-D'Urfé through a forced merger on January 1, 2002. On June 20, 2004, both Beaconsfield and Baie-D'Urfé voted to return to being independent municipalities, effective January 1, 2006.
Fort Senneville as it appeared in 1895 when photographed by William Notman & Sons. The history of human settlement in the West Island of Montréal likely predated European colonization which began in the early to mid 17th century, but little is known of the history of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians who inhabited the island in the pre-colonial era.
Montreal West (French: Montréal-Ouest) is an on-island municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Island of Montreal.. Montreal West is a small, close-knit community made up primarily of single-family dwellings.
This is a list of small shopping centres (mostly neighbourhood shopping centres) in the island of Montreal.. A neighbourhood shopping centre is an industry term in North America for a shopping centre with 30,000 to 125,000 square feet (2,800 to 11,600 m 2) of gross leasable area, typically anchored by a supermarket and/or large drugstore.